N. Krupskaya

To Lenin’s Mother

Written:8 June, 1914. Letter sent from KrakowPublished:1931, First published in Lenin’sLetters to Relatives.Source:Lenin
Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow,Volume 37, page  621-622.Translated/Edited:George H. Hanna and Robert Daglish.Transcription/Markup:D. WaltersPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive 2008. 	You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and 	commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as the source/editing/transcription/markup information noted above.

Her Excellency Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova,Samarin’s House, Apt. 3,Moskovskaya Street, Vologda,Russia

Dear Maria Alexandrovna,

Many kisses for you and Manyasha. I received Manya’s postcard and short letter and replied to them the same day.

How are you keeping?

It is pouring with rain from morning to night here, for a whole week I have been unable to step outside except In raincoat and galoshes.

Mother is poorly all the time, her heart troubles her. This year she has frequently suffered from [palpitation],[A corner of the postcard has been torn off and the words in brackets have been filled in by the editor according to the sense—Editor]and because of her ill [ness and] the rain she is in a bad [mood].

[We are] travelling. I have made a [discovery]-Based ow’s disease gets a lot [better] from excursions into the mountains, but   in such weather I cannot, of course, go anywhere. By the way, the disease has not made itself very much felt this year. That is all. Again I embrace you.